Policy 31 — Records Management and Retention

PHIG keeps complete records of every grant and gives funders, their auditors and investigators access to them on request. Owner: Head of Administration (Ioseb Demetrashvili).

PHIG Institutional Policy Manual · Consolidated edition, September 2026

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PHIG keeps complete records of every grant and gives funders, their auditors and investigators access to them on request. Owner: Head of Administration (Ioseb Demetrashvili).

  • Default retention: 7 years after the end of the project, unless a grant agreement or law requires longer.
  • Donor minimums: US awards — at least 3 years from submission of the final financial report, extended while any audit, claim or litigation is open; EU, World Bank and EBRD grants — the period stated in the agreement. PHIG always applies the longest period.
  • What is kept: agreements and amendments, budgets, accounting records, invoices, payment proofs, procurement files, timesheets, asset registers, sub-award files, reports and correspondence.
  • Format: original or certified electronic copies, filed by project code, backed up (Policy 32).
  • Access: donors and their authorised representatives have the right to inspect and copy records and to interview staff.
  • Destruction: only after the retention period, approved by the Head of Administration and logged; personal data under Policy 16.